· Private foundation
The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS | $250,000 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $204,550 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $200,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $170,500 |
| WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY | $170,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $150,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $129,550 |
| ARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| LAND STUDIO | $100,000 |
| GLOBAL AMBASSADORS LANGUAGE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE | $90,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| THE MUSIC SETTLEMENT | $50,000 |
| BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENC | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $933k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY6× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +31%
- CZCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +72%
- TATHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO4× · 2017–2022 · $770k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TTTALL TIMBERS INCone grant, 2020 · $300k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESone grant, 2018 · $250k
- GAGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +115%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections of Northeast Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Ridgeview Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
186 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 186 of the 252 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
- Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDWISH MEDWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Swagelok Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Kent School Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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